Story Circuits – what Ion Heart teaches us about one-shot gaming

As you know, I’m a big fan of the power of solo gaming as a prep technique. And Ion Heart, a solo mech exploration RPG from Parable Games, has a structure for its missions that we can certainly re-skin for group games – and one that is especially suitable for one-shot gaming: Story Circuits.

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